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tens of thousands demonstrated in egypt angered by the slow pace of reform by the interim government they are demanding the prosecution of officials and police involved with the suppression of protesters during the revolution that toppled the former president hosni mubarak the uprising against mubarak began in late january and claimed the lives of more than eight hundred people many of them anti-government activists. hundreds of palestinian activists for flights but still don't make it to gaza most were prevented from boarding planes at european airports while those who. supported activists have launched repeated attempts to reach him with a. flotilla was ordered by israeli commandos.

two. zero one lift the final. blasts off marking the end of the space shuttle program. counting because critics of the move to discontinue shuttle missions say could lead to a brain drain of highly qualified. shuttle has been in use since one thousand nine hundred one mostly to service and transport crews to the international space station. now while some european politicians are claiming that the idea of multiculturalism has failed. the director of the russian federal migration service if the same is true in russia spot by does next. hello again the welcome to.

the flow. change the demographics of the old world. multicultural europe has failed the problem. as growing. from the former. all the russians learning from experience. is the director of the federal service. the data published by the federal migration service a million economic migrants come to russia every year many of them come to the country illegally and. another problem is people coming from. either speak russian badly don't speak. together these factors make their integration into

russian society difficult or impossible. but they have. russia needs to make up the shortfall in the workforce. thank you for coming to. the first question we actually start discussing immigration and whether we should try to prevent a regulated. can present a industry developed economies do without. or are migrants absolutely indispensable and then we should take for granted. well it's definitely a fact of life and we cannot do without migrants use migration needs movement of roles will be large masses of people or smaller groups depending upon the economic demands of the city you can omics move people urging them to travel for jobs hence

migration that the migration is a global phenomenon and we cannot ignore it there is an old russian proverb that says fish move to deeper waters and people move for a better life there's nothing you can do about it and definitely if you put russia said for a while is it still coming to grips with its intake europe the united states and other advanced economies is the peak of migration already over are these economies saturated with migrant labor or will now gratian rates continue to increase and if we take france for example same people feel that you can hardly find a true frenchman there anymore or there are still some they're not easy to spot you know i think that sadly the peak of migration is indeed over them why sadly because well migration means new influencers new trends new money new technologies something new that is brought to your country along with the war course the extra hands and the good minds that come over here. unfortunately the current demographic

trends worldwide concerned that there isn't a jury flawed in some graphic analysis that we also use it's called the family formula it's an average number of grandparents parents and children per family and with each everywhere in the world that formula tends to be four plus plus one you know the words for grandparents two parents and a single child this global trend is telling us that everywhere there will be problems but worse in five years time we are unlikely to experience a shortage of holly qualified. officials turn to fifteen years there might be an under supply of low skilled labor not only in russia but globally the u. according to the latest world migration report the number of people leaving their out lead in search of better living is growing despite the economic downturn and

tougher migration laws spotlights he had. never before has the world seen international migration in this larger scale less today every year sets new record for the number of migrants they now account for three percent of the world population the world migration report says over the last ten years the number of migrants increased by more than sixty million the next forty years are going to see the number of migrants double the credit crunch accompanied by on employment was expected to make foreigners return home but that never happened the u.s. with over forty million for in residence is the most popular destination russia is among the top ten this the nation's earnings by foreigners account for a massive capital outflow a third of the g.d.p. comes from the money migrants send back home from russia and it's not only way but

migration which is growing more and more people have to leave their homes to scape violence the united nations refugee agency reports that the last year more than forty three million people became refugees the highest number in fifteen years this year again says floods of refugees forced out of their homes by revolutions in northern africa waves of illegal immigrants coming to europe have been described as a human tsunami. we have just watched a report on the currency. gratian situation and the recent reaction in europe faced with an inflow of refugees from north africa as a result of the arab revolutions shows that the european public is growing ever less tolerant of immigrants. do you think this could be a backlash to some erratic immigration policies pursued by european governments in

the past and if so what were the mistakes that. well actually i do think that there have been some mistakes. i'll do my best to be careful with my judgments but i think. multiculturalism policies are actually aimed at stressing and encouraging differences. to put it simply say if you wear something to emphasize your ethnic identity or even clothes yes clothes then. that's the basic approach meanwhile i believe you should spend money to erase differences caucus on promoting integration but integration is something meant for those who plan to stay in country for good. i'm sorry to

interrupt you but there is an interesting twist you have been spent several decades alone with billions of euros in order to be able to say we had a worse we can be different in still live side by side it is something that the soviet union in many if you will by the way which you are suggesting this approach should be replaced by the american model the sensible one. and the melting pot. but here you must melt into a new society of the future you think this is a more viable option scores of the leaders of france and germany have already acknowledged that multiculturalism is something of a hypo creasy and essentially a mistake. that i don't go for extremes so the notion of a melting pot or anything related some at all casting doesn't really appeal to me as we're talking about people here so i maintain that there is should be case by case approach which it must be more elaborate and sophisticated which but it must

be specifically aimed at ending differences that we command disparities and toning down the distinctions that make people feel uneasy about one another and. people should be tolerant and understanding each other. when you much. teller in is a positive thing however i'm going to say something a bit controversial. when you come to france you can be whatever you want you can be. russian is anything but if you come to britain you're a century told you must be a brit it doesn't matter what color you are but you must be a brit. what approach do you think would be right for russia the french way or the british way mintel you wise i mean a general conceptual approach i realize these are two streams. in principle i

guess i'd go with the british model see the point is to preserve the culture of the host country certainly respect the culture. russia russia. this should be the top priority and there's nothing to be shamed off. me afraid that somebody might call you nationalist. never mind the labels you think this is a more viable approach i believe the lying on your heritage and having faith in your country enhanced as your by tell it see. green forces are nationhood store. nationalist lost. my father is convinced that one of the reasons the soviet union imploded was exactly the absence of a melting pot there was no single integral nation while there was plenty of hypocritical propaganda that's the age group in the u.s.s.r. has its own culture language territory laws and so on would you agree with that.

i would in general it's rather true than false but i'll be deliberate after all i'm representing the migration service. the federal aviation service is trying to learn some lessons we're wising out from what we see in the west we definitely try to learn. those are sometimes complicated lessons but if we are speaking up and down for example we have developed a database which so far doesn't have an analogy in a west. it's a database to register foreign nationals in russia we use it to work with online data the number of foreign citizens in russia three we know how many of them are in russia and generally what sort of work they do this is pretty sample at this moment russia is hosting about nine point eight million foreigners. that's almost ten

million that's right but some say it's just five big difference. listen you're talking to the head of the migration service who works with a database of dos years. by the way i demonstrated their system to my european contra ports and you know it seems to me like the completely understood but. in many cases they didn't criticize it. says constantin little more than a ski director of the federal regulation seven spotlight will be back shortly after the break so stay with us we'll be back to.

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welcome back to the spotlight just. in the studio. director of the russian federal migration service. mr him and we were discussing the policy on migrants that are country shoot it up in your opinion would you say there is a government policy in support of your notion that migrants should respect the host

culture. but would you say that the government is supporting you. absolutely we are part of the executive branch. weary implementing government policy that this is our main function and there is no doubt about this. you know i believe that next year all rafferty's will culminate in a concept for a migration policy. this document. well if you buy it are working to. and set specific goals and objectives for each department. sent priorities not just for our service but for society as a whole. our goals law in the areas of demographics and you can omics. what is your current priority. and that would be economics because.

an economic goal in a situation all regulated migration that you know it would be wrong to open our borders completely and liberalized all migration. but that would be wrong we believe in regulated migration issue we know that a lot of people just want to come to moscow to stay here and do nothing. but we can't have that they become criminals plain and simple that's right you know i really like you were one. those officials who recognize a lot of problems that exist in russia and people to tackle them. in one of your interviews that there is. that you admit it is great which you go on to say that in a phobia he's being insulted deliberately. would you tell me who in russia would benefit from fueling ethnic tensions besides extremist politicians with

negligible ratings. you know ethnic tension can be used again benefits. even political benefits. and some dishonest people can use. i mean people who have certain political ambitions but it's just people who have certain political goals just so you know those people's you. security services should fight them which. i for one have never heard of an openly intelligent person to be elected to the russian parliament that sentiment remains at street level and in the press maybe but given that why are some people still trying to exit it was well this just means that we are in tune a good job i don't mean myself but rather my colleagues this means that we're able

to prevent a xena folks from reaching their goal getting into mysie who are infiltrating other agencies. our efforts are using posed to results. the quality and qualification of migrant workers who come to russia i have a great impact on people's attitudes toward migrants it's one thing when you have construction workers coming to the country and it's a completely different deal if you check people keep a bill of advancing culture and science. for a long time people thought of russia is a country that attracted unskilled migrants and that federal authorities have been trying to attract better qualified workforce do we see this happening. you know we adopted a new law year ago. it's just amendments to the law on foreign citizens legal status and they went into effect a year ago and we have made very good progress that used to we have some quite

inspiring statistics. last year and we awful a registered three thousand people in the last six months of twenty san they figure for the first six months of this year will be six thousand people bigger permissions to work here for three years not a month not six months three years you're talking about work permits. yes it's a three year work permit that will allow them to work anywhere in russia they will be able to get a residence permit. they will get certain tax benefits it will be easier for their families to come to russia we should over a two thousand family invitations in the past year alone. so nine thousand experts plus two thousand family members makes eleven thousand people who are working to divans our economy. they represent an intellectual force

currently a large share of the experts we host about twenty percent are employed in trade it's. well i suppose we're learning to trade you know they were there businessmen correct here's what i find interesting you're saying the share of skilled migrants in russia is increasing there are two points of view on migration both of which seem reasonable the first one maintains that migrants are necessary to do the dirty work that local residents don't want to do that the second one claims that migrants come to steal their jobs and skilled migrants come to sweep the streets something the muscovites just won't do. migrants and then they come to take our bread from us which of these. two opinions is the correct one or are they both right and. they're both right when both kinds of migrants. one thing that's important is that those who come to sweep streets should know which to treat when they're going to sweep

what we want to war it is flocks of unskilled migrants standing around in places like construction markets worried the euro slow highway as it is organized on skilled labor force for hire. anyone there are no more streets for them to sweep they turn to crime is understandable they have to eat to. migration processes should be regulated. controlled migration has replaced chaotic migration to d. what we have to do now is just switch to migration that's efficiently regulated it's going. to cause one of your interviews you said the existing make ration quota principle is inefficient and we have to abandon it and of quotes what would you have that system replaced with companies in for jobs will the russians have to try even harder to find a decent job they have those quotas they repealed. yeah you know what i'm talking

about something different. brushes small and medium businesses have no way of the official plea attracting workers today. we understand that small and medium businesses are one of the things that drive our economy this means we have to help our businesses and we can do that while these restrictions remain in place with these restrictions a person has to know what kind of labor his business will need nine months in advance that's just impossible. so let's face it we're in favor of controlling labor migration in russia. but at the same time i have. the rules we impose. they have to be very simple understandable and proper simple. so there is a lot of talk about introducing five year entry visas to that at the meeting does

this have anything to do with their three year work permits that you have mentioned . no you must be referring to a visa regime with e.u. countries. and this has to do you we believe visa free regime that we are currently negotiating with the e.u. with we're working together with our foreign ministry on this issue and of course it's mainly to foreign ministry that is in charge of dee's negotiations. so we are currently. working on the yuri admission agreement russia e.u. dialogue has been launched and this allows us to resolve issues related to. the visa free regime and labor migration. noosphere is very promising and we have actually made during good progress on those issues.

we believe that a visa free rejean with the european union is possible personal i do. another practice that foreigners who is aid in russia would like to see abandoned is registration today they have to notify the migration agency and get registered every time they move will this procedure ever be abolished or simplified. yes i know what you're talking about in we have actually already made some steps toward states it's no longer a foreign nationals responsibility to get registered it's his employer's responsibility to get him registered with the migration service. so we have simplified these and some other thing. so we are making progress and i think. very much related to our dialogue with the european union on a visa free regime i think we should all trust each other and i think we should all

try to bring our positions closer together. thank you very much for being. twenty years ago countries.

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